is this a big worry? and now, my guest is joining me. can we get the unemployment rate by low 9 percent if gas is close to four bucks a gallon? >>guest: it will be tough. it makes it more expensive to business to run business when it comes to shipping businesses and the industrial machine of the united states, and, really, the global industrial machine so that is, really, tough, and a balancing act they have been trying to play and obama has been trying to play and they are not successful. >>stuart: is gas prices the mover to slowing the committee down? >>guest: there are so many movers, it is just one of the of -- movers and if you look at our economy, the unemployment is a big factor and housing, although we have better numbers they are not where they need to be, and there are a ton of factors but it does not help because the hard gins shrink and you can only subsidize the higher gas prices so long and they are passed on to the business owner and the consumer. >>stuart: this wasn't supposed to happen. we released oil from the strategic